Kim Wilde – Kids in America
An evening pause: From 1981.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Category: The Evening Pause
A nightly pause from the news to give the reader/viewer a bit of classic entertainment.
Ray Bethell – Good Stuff
An evening pause: “How does a person deal with the unfairness of life? The only way you can do it is face it, head on.”
Ray Bethell – Romancing The Wind
An evening pause: The music is the Flower Duet from the opera Lakme by Léo Delibes. Tomorrow’s evening pause will be a magnificent short documentary about this man and how he came to kite flying. And I wonder if you can guess what he had done for a living.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Gilbert & Sullivan – Three Little Maids
An evening pause: From the movie Topsy-Turvy (2000), Shirley Henderson, Dorothy Atkinson and Cathy Sara singing. The movie is about the creation of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado. Not surprisingly, the best scenes in the movie are the scenes where they perform songs from the operetta, such as this 2010 evening pause.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Town
An evening pause: I usually dislike most music videos because of their cliches and fakery, preferring live performances instead. However, this 1967 Nancy Sinatra music video, from the very early days of such things, is so simple it doesn’t bother me that much. In a sense, it even highlights the music.
Hat tip t-dub.
Serena Ryder – Racing In The Street
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Elton John – Rocket Man
An evening pause: Hat tip Sayomara. This pause is slightly different, and is really two-for-one. The background music is Elton John’s “Rocket Man,” but the visuals are of SpaceX’s future spaceport site at Boca Chica beach near Brownsville, Texas. Apparently someone used a drone to fly over the site and videotaped it. As Sayomara noted, this “shows how far away this site is from being usable.”
Winny Jessica Setiawan, Sheila Permatasaka, and BEBOP Light Orchestra – Something Stupid
An evening pause: Performed during a wedding reception, December 2012, in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Pietro Mascagni – Preludio Cavalleria Rusticana
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who wrote, “Pietro Mascagni’s ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ is often translated as ‘Country Ways.’ His opera departed from those of his day in that his characters were not of the nobility. He portrayed the lives and struggles of ordinary people. The performance is by the Gaetano Donizetti Symphonic Orchestra of Gessate and conducted by Pierangelo Pelucchi.”
Rod Stewart – When You Wish Upon a Star
An evening pause: Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Salt N Pepa – Whattaman
An evening pause: Something different, and quite good.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Crystal Gayle & Muppets – River Road
An evening pause: As I have said before, it is very important to be silly once in awhile.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
The Maine – If I Only Had The Heart
<An evening pause: I like the simplicity.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Peter Pringle – The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian
An evening pause: As I return from Israel and the Middle East, this piece somehow seems appropriate, played on the Sumerian long-neck “gishgudi.”
Hat tip Sayomara.
Bobby Vee – Take Good Care of My Baby
An evening pause: Recorded live on television in 1989.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.
Jean Mitry – Pacific 231
An evening pause: I would never sit through a performance of the music played during this 1949 short film showing the power of the steam locomotive. Juxtapositioned with the powerful images of the train in motion, however, this music works splendidly. The film itself is an example of the kind of short avant garde films produced during the 1950s and 1950s, and well worth watching.
Hat tip Blair Ivey.
Anna Martin – Dead and Lovely
An evening pause: The song is Tom Waits, and is performed as part of a show put on by the group, Lady Sings it Better.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
An evening pause: This recreation attempts to recapture the reality of how Lincoln himself might have said the speech. Listen to the words, however. This is no pandering speech, as we routinely see today. It is hard, muscled, and honest, bluntly recognizing that all, from both sides of the Civil War, must pay for the scourge of slavery.
It is fitting to watch it today, on the anniversary of Lincoln’s assassination.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Jennifer Connelly – The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
An evening pause: From the really evocative science fiction film Dark City (1998). The film ain’t perfect, but it sticks with you long after you see it.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.